Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seek" on January 4 in Cambridge. Aside from coaching numerous college theatricals at the University and at Dartmouth, Mr. Lord has long been associated with the Shuberts, both as an actor and as a manager, and in these capacities he has come in contact with audiences of every sort in every part of the country. Continuing his tirade, against Boston audiences, Mr. Lord declared...
...public that there will doubtless be some form of favorable action taken. All groups are for reductions in the lower brackets and for lower taxes on " salary " income than on " investment" income. The Democrats, progressives and insurgents oppose, some of them bitterly, reduction of the higher surtaxes. But some sort of tax reduction is almost inevitable...
...This sort of thing is characteristic of singers. Caruso in the midst of his fatal illness sang a performance in Brooklyn when he should have been in bed. Half way through he suffered a hemorrhage of the throat had to stop. His rashness helped him to the grave...
...better than 'Oedepus Rex'", he said in a sudden burst of enthusiasm. "It is damn good melodrama. People think that there is something learned and scholastic about it. But it's not. It's the sort of play that any one can enjoy. It has rapid action and gripping dramatic interest. And that's why I'm giving this production,--to show that a great classic play can be enjoyed. I don't want just the highly educated to come to this play; I want the great public,--the man in the street. It has its appeal not only...
American Literature, writes this very modern Englishman, like the Russian has come to a real verge. "The furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant...